1980s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Lace & Sequin Black Dress w Dropped Full Skirt designer-michaele-vollbracht and incredible embroidery work that

and incredible embroidery work that has been all done by hand

The skirt is cut to skim the hips and hug the body

or pull the fabric down to meet the waist of the skirt

Made of a good weight black silk taffeta the gown makes that delicious rustling sound at the slightest movement

And attached collar again blends the velvet and lame and is cut so a small attached scarf can be swung jauntily around the neck

1980s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Lace & Sequin Black Dress w Dropped Full Skirt designer-michaele-vollbracht and incredible embroidery work thatThis dress was made by hand in the atelier of Ady Couture who was based in Lausanne Switzerland. Ady herself was a couture trained seamstress and headed a team who had full permission of the Haute Couture houses she worked with to make the designs they showed in Paris for clients based in Switzerland and the surrounding areas. She would purchase the couture fabrics from the couture houses along with the patterns and then make the actual dresses in her